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The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt launched its own "Wikipedia".

Cairo, March 7 .- The Muslim Brotherhood today launched "Ikhwan Wiki, a free encyclopedia, Wikipedia style, but about them and their own history, coinciding with the 61st anniversary of the death of its founder, Hassan al Banna.

As reported by the Islamist organization on its website, the new site, literally "the Wiki of Brothers" is intended to be an "international network, sto credits, of information, with rrences to his books, studies, articles and loaded with images and videos.

It has the pretension of being a "source document" for researchers, journalists and anyone interested in the "correct information" about them, which will also include your old journals, magazines and newspapers.

The Muslim Brotherhood already have strong presence in the network and have a forum "that brings, tera gold, together hundreds of members" and that two years ago and it housed a first attempt to provide information as a free electronic.

For now, the new Wikipedia of the Islamist social and political association created in 1928 is newly released and goes to live with other great websites promoted by them as "Ikwanonline" Ikhwanweb "or" Ikhwantube "which emulates the, champions online resources, well-known video portal "Youtube."

The Muslim Brotherhood in its note recalled that Islamists of all signs "have raised the maximum advantage of the Internet, despite the efforts of their adversaries."

And is that from the beginning between the years 1996 and 1997 in the Arab countries, Islamists have been lavished on the internet, having suffered "restrictions on access to traditional media to reflect their opinion and dnd their ideology."

And is that boast more than 30 websites, in English and Arabic, in addition to 26 sites in the branches of the various provinces of the country.

The organization says that the launch of the new electronica free comes at a delicate moment in the attacks and arrests suffered by the Government of President Hosni Mubarak.

The Egyptian authorities last month arrested 12 members of the banned but influential organization, among which was his "number two", Mahmud Azat.

The Muslim Brotherhood group, created in 1928 by Hasan al Bana and banned in 1954, is semitolerado by the authorities that allow members to participate as independents in elections to Parliament, where they currently have a fifth of the seats.

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